Leí los estatutos.

to read

Breakdown of Leí los estatutos.

• los estatutos: the bylaws

Questions & Answers about Leí los estatutos.

What tense is leí?

Leí is the first-person singular preterite form of leer.

That means it expresses a completed action in the past:

• leer = to read
• leí = I read / I did read

In this sentence, the reading is presented as a finished event, not as something ongoing or habitual.

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Why is there no yo in the sentence?

Spanish often omits subject pronouns because the verb ending already shows who the subject is.

Here, leí already means I read, so yo is not necessary.

You can add yo if you want emphasis, contrast, or clarity:

• Yo leí los estatutos, pero él no.

Without emphasis, Leí los estatutos sounds completely natural.

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Why does leí have an accent mark?

The accent mark shows that the í is stressed and pronounced as a separate syllable.

So leí is pronounced:

• le-Í

not as a single-syllable sound.

This happens because leer is a vowel verb, and in some forms Spanish needs the written accent to show that the vowels do not merge into one syllable.

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